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PatentedMay 13, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @EEicE.

CHARLES KIPER, OF ATOHISON, KANSAS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,590, dated May 13, 1884.

Application filed January 26, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES KIPER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atchison, in the county of Atchison and State of Kansas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Collars, of which the following is a description.

Figure'l is an inside view of the horse-collar. Fig. 2 is a section of the same through the line w x of Fig. 1, looking downwardly. Fig. 3 is a section through the line y y of Fig. l, and Fig. 4 is a plan of the pattern of the leather covering for the rim or front roll.

My invention relates to an improvement in horse-collars, designed to secure a flexibility of the collar in adapting the shoulder-pads to the shoulders of the horse, and designed also to make the throat light and strong and save labor in the construction of the same.

To this end it consists in a collar in which the rim or front roll of the collar is formed with a throat-section madein one piece with the leather of the rim and bent over and around the lower ends of the shou1der-pads, and secured by the same row of stitching that fastens the rim to shoulder-pads, as hereinafter fully described.

In the drawings, A represents the rim or front roll of the collar, which is connected to the shoulder-pads B B by a row of stitching, a. These shoulder-pads are composed of linerpieces I) b and back pieces, 0 c, secured by a seam, d, and suitably stuffed with straw or other materials. At the point where the lower ends of the shoulder-pads come together they are reduced in size and lapped, and over them extends a throat-piece, O, which is cut in one and the same piece of leather with the rim or section A. (See Fig. 4.) This throatlapped ends of the shoulder-pads, and its edge is fastened beneath the lower outside edge of the rim at e by the same row of stitching, a, that unites the rim to the shoulder-pads. This bor and care of stuffing the throat, which is the most important part of the collar. It also makes the throat light, solid, and strong; and the lower ends of the shoulder-pads being received in the throat-piece O, as it were, in flexible sockets, said shoulder-pads are in consequence made very flexible in adapting themselves to the shoulders of the horse without allowing undue pressure on the throat. By making the rim and throatin one piece also, I form a much more durable collar, and one which is strongest at the throat or point where the collar first gives away.

Having thus described I claim as new is 1. A horse-collar having the rim and shoulder-pads made of separate pieces, and the throat-section 0 made in one and the same piece with the rim, substantially as shown and described.

2. The rim A of a horse-collar, having a throat-piece, 0, made in one piece therewith, in combination with the shoulder-pads, the said throat-piece being bent over and around the lower ends of the shoulder-pads, andhaving its free edge secured beneath the lower edge of the rim by the same row of stitching that connects the rim to the shoulder-pads, substantially as and for the purpose described.

CHAS. KIPER.

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